oskusalerma/trelby — Issue #33: automatic character CONT'D
Author: AlexanderVogler
Created: 2011-12-02 00:28:44+00:00
State: open

Within a scene, when two portions of dialogue by a single character are separated by one or several action paragraphs and no dialogue by any other character, "(CONT'D)" is often used as and extention, beside the character name, in all dialogue paragraphs but the first. Not all screenwriters like to do this, but some, like John August, prefer it because it brings more clarity to the reader and, later, to the actor.

Currently, one can type it manually in Trelby, but it would be good that the software handled this automatically (if the writer chosed to use this extension), especially considering re-writes, where whole chunks of dialogue will disappear or be added, so the writer doesn't have to manually delete or add (CONT'D) throughout his changes.